gnome-app-install

update-app-install crashes if not run as root

Bug #325909 reported by Vadim Peretokin on 2009-02-05

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	gnome-app-install	Fix Released	Undecided	Michael Vogt

Bug Description

Caching application data...
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/sbin/update-app-install", line 6, in <module>
    main()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/AppInstall/update.py", line 107, in main
    generate_menu_cache(options.desktop_dir, options.cache_dir)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/AppInstall/update.py", line 71, in generate_menu_cache
    menu.createMenuCache(cache_dir)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/AppInstall/CoreMenu.py", line 40, in createMenuCache
    pickle.dump(self.pickle, open('%s/%s' % (targetdir,fname),'w'), 2)
IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/cache/app-install/menu.p'